Father Zerr was born 10 March 1849 in Franzfeld in the Kherson District of South Russia. He completed seminary training at the Catholic Seminary in Saratov and was ordained 11 March 1872. He served the parish in Preuss from 1872 to 1877 and was appointed Dean of the Northern District of the Wiesenseite colonies in 1878 while he served the Catholic parish in Katharinenstadt. He also taught at the seminary.
Father Michael Hatzenböller (some records spell the name Hatzenbühler) was born 26 September 1878 in Neu-Baden (today: Gudewitsch) in the Odessa District.
He studied theology at the Catholic Theological Seminary in Saratov and was ordained on 25 April 1904.
He served the parish in Ober-Monjou from 28 July 1905 to 1907. The remainder of his career was spent serving parishes in the Odessa District.
Father Tortschinski (also spelled Turczynsky) was ordained on 29 June 1860. He served the parish in Ober-Monjou 1887.
Father Beilmann was born in Volmer in 1878. He graduated from the Saratov Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1897. He served the parishes in Ober-Monjou from 22 January 1901 to 1909 and in Katharinenstadt in 1909 before going to Rosental in Crimea and Rozhdestvenskoye in the Caucasus.
James Arnold Deines (born on September 26, 1962 in Springdale, Arkansas) is a former professional basketball player. He is listed at 6'9" and played forward/center for the Arizona State University Sun Devils. He was drafted in 1985 by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 4th round, but never got to play in the NBA.
Helene Fischer, daughter of Peter & Maria Fischer, is a German pop singer and entertainer. She is the recipient of two Echo Awards and has many No. 1 hits on German and Austrian charts.
Helene was born 5 August 1984 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Her grandparents had been deported in 1941 from the Volga German Republic.
She and her family immigrated to Germany in 1988 when she was 4, and settled in Wöllstein in Rhineland-Palatinate. She has an older sister, Erica.
Gustav Otto Richard Reusch ("Richard") was born 31 October 1891 in Bettinger. He was the brother of Pastor Emil Reusch.
His father Gustav was a teacher, and the family moved to Pyatigorsk in the Northern Caucasus in 1897 where they lived among the Terek Cossacks. In 1904 the family moved to Vladikavkas and Richard was sent to live at the Imperial Cadet Corps and enrolled in a military high school. In 1911 he became mountaineer, graduating first in his class, and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant.
Georg "George" Eichler, son of Johann Jakob Eichler & Anna Elisabeth Rutz, was born 9 October 1875 in Dönhof. He married there to Maria Katharina Gomer on 25 February 1897. He immigrated with his family on 24 September 1902 aboard the SS Neckar to Baltimore, Maryland. They settled first in Burlington, Iowa.
He was ordained in 1916 in Fort Collins, Colorado, and served parishes in Paul, Idaho; Lamar, Colorado; Walla Walla, Washington; Follett, Texas; Berthoud & Crook, Colorado; and Yoder, Wyoming.
Johnny Hopp was an American baseball player, with a 14-year career (1939-1952) in the big leagues at outfielder and first base. He appeared in five World Series, winning two of them with the St. Louis Cardinals and two with the New York Yankees. Following his playing career, Hopp was a Detroit Tigers coach and part of the St. Louis Cardinals staff.
Florentina Seitz, better known as "Sister Bernarda," was born in General Acha, La Pampa Prov., Argentina, on 19 June 1927. She was daughter of Heinrich and Barbara (Staub) Seitz. She entered a convent of the Holy Cross at age 16.